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Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway 140

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 26, 2010 @06:58PM from the for-services-rendered dept.

binstream writes "To support Linux game development, Unigine Corp. announced a competition: it will give a free license for its Unigine engine to a seasoned team willing to work on a native Linux game. The company has been Linux-friendly from the very start; it released advanced GPU benchmarks (Heaven, Tropics, Sanctuary) for Linux before and is working on the OilRush strategy game that supports Linux as well."

Bunnie Huang on China's "Shanzai" Mash-Up Design Shops 181

Posted by timothy on Friday February 27, 2009 @02:53AM from the gibsonstephensonesque dept.

saccade.com writes "Bunnie (of XBox hacking and Chumby fame) has written an insightful post about how a new phenomena emerging out of China called 'Shanzai' has impacted the electronics business there. A new class of innovators, they're going beyond merely copying western designs to producing electronic "mash-ups" to create new products. Bootstrapped on small amounts of capital, they range from shops of just a few people to a few hundred. They rapidly create new products, and use an "open source" style design community where design ideas and component lists are shared."

The Most Influential Games In History? 254

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 27, 2009 @02:44AM from the aside-from-duke-nuken-forever dept.

Kotaku reports on a list published recently by Guinness World Records which credits Super Mario Kart as the most influential console game in history. "Tetris ranks in at number two, according to the list, and the original Grand Theft Auto is in the number three spot. Where does Super Mario Bros. turn up? Way down at number 17, beneath Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." Several other franchises have multiple entries on the list, such as Final Fantasy and Resident Evil. What console games have influenced you the most?

Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? 321

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 26, 2009 @08:32PM from the what-is-your-quest-please-press-one dept.

Nocts writes "I'm currently working for a moderately sized company that manages a large portion of its internal help desk questions through a Jabber-based chat room. What we're looking for instead is an open source, preferably Web-based solution that will give us the ability to have floor representatives queue questions and concerns in a similar fashion to BugTraq, directed at the help desk. Email capability would be preferred for elaboration of specific issues, but the more we can centralize everything into the queued system the better. Any recommendations and experiences? Just about any language is doable since I have the ability to configure and upgrade our servers and we're looking at about a user base of 100 people, with around 5-10 questions a minute."

Creative Commons Releases "Zero" License 209

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 26, 2009 @07:14PM from the ain't-nothin'-to-it-baby dept.

revealingheart writes "Plagiarism Today reports on the release of the Creative Commons Zero license, which allows you to waive copyright and related rights to your works, improving on the existing public domain dedication. This follows-on from their original announcement on CC0. The CC0 waiver system is a major step forward for the Creative Commons Organization in terms of their public domain efforts. Even though it isn't a true public domain dedication, it only waives the rights as far as they can be waived (Note: Moral rights, in many countries, can not be outright waived), it opens up what is likely as close to a public domain option as practical under the current legal climate."

Comment HW protection long time ago implemented on SPARC (Score 2) 330

by vescudero on Wednesday December 29, 2004 @07:25AM (#11207758) Attached to: Holland Bans AMD's 'Virus Protection' Campaign

This NX bit is a long waited hardware feature in the x86 platform. Sun Solaris developers needed a similar way of avoiding stack overflows due to arbitrary code execution. The solution was partially addressed in the Sun UltraSparc architecture with the introduction of an optional flag that could mark the stack as no executable. Additionally even the unsuccessfull attempts to break this protection could be logged for further investigation.

At first this flag was disabled by default because it was not comply with SPARCv8 ABI so some (mainly bad coded) applications that relied on the execution of code inside the stack could not run as expected. Sun collaborated with its huge community of developers to addresssome collateral effects and once resolved Sun published the new SPARCv9 ABI reference guide in which the stack is no longer mapped as executable.
Currently 64-bit Solaris applications running on SPARC don't need to worry about exploits that rely on malicious code execution due to stack overflows.

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